Medical Practitioners Act, 1955

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR No. 1/1955
• Year: 1955

Number 1 of 1955.
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ACT, 1955.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section 1. Interpretation. 2. Extension of current term of office. 3. Temporary registration. 4. Effect of temporary registration, etc. 5. Registration of visiting postgraduate medical students. 6. Amendments of Principal Act. 7. Amendments of Act of 1951. 8. Regulations. 9. Expenses of the Council. 10. Repeal. 11. Short title and collective citation.
Acts Referred to Medical Practitioners Act, 1951 No. 29 of 1951 Medical Practitioners Act, 1927 No. 25 of 1927
Number 1 of 1955.
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ACT, 1955.
AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ACTS, 1927 AND 1951. [2nd March, 1955.]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—
	Interpretation.	1.—(1) In this Act—
	“the Act of 1951” means the Medical Practitioners Act, 1951 (No. 29 of 1951);
	“the Minister” means the Minister for Health;
	“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Council;
	“the Principal Act” means the Medical Practitioners Act, 1927 (No. 25 of 1927);
	“temporary registration” means registration by virtue of section 3 of this Act, and “temporarily registered” shall be construed accordingly.
	(2) The Principal Act, the Act of 1951 and this Act shall be construed together as one Act.
	Extension of current term of office.	2.—Notwithstanding section 4 of the Principal Act, the term of office of the members of the Council which is current at the passing of this Act shall continue until the 31st day of December, 1957.
	Temporary registration.	3.—(1) Where the Council is satisfied—
	(a) that a person is or intends to be in the State temporarily for the purpose of employment in the practice of medicine, surgery or midwifery in a hospital or other institution approved of by the Council for the purposes of this section, and
	(b) that such person holds a degree or diploma which, in the opinion of the Council, affords sufficient guarantee that he possesses the requisite knowledge and skill for the efficient practice of medicine, surgery and midwifery and passed the examination appropriate for obtaining such degree or diploma,
	the Council may, upon such person's making the prescribed application and paying such fee as may be prescribed with the consent of the Minister, temporarily register such person in the register for such period as the Council may determine.
	(2) The Council may extend a period determined under sub-section (1) of this section for such further period or periods as the Council may determine.
	(3) A person temporarily registered shall cease to be so registered upon the termination of the employment for the purpose of which he was registered.
	Effect of temporary registration, etc.	4.—(1) A person temporarily registered shall be deemed to be registered in the register so far as is necessary in order that the following provisions of the Principal Act, namely, sections 15 , 22 , 23 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 and subsection (2) of section 37 , may be applicable in his case, but the said provisions shall be applicable only in relation to the employment for the purpose of which such person was registered and to anything done or omitted in the course of such employment, and such person shall, in relation to any other matter, be treated as if he were not registered in the register.
	(2) Every person who, for the purpose of being temporarily registered, makes or procures or causes to be made or procured or aids or abets the making or procuring of any representation which to his knowledge is false or fraudulent shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months.
	(3) Every person who wilfully and falsely represents himself to be or holds himself out as being a person who is temporarily registered or uses any name, title, addition or description implying that he is so registered shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds.
	(4) The references in sections 22 , 23 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 33 , 34 , 35 and 36 of the Principal Act to a person registered in the register shall be construed as including references to a person temporarily registered.
	(5) The Council shall so exercise its powers of making regulations under section 19 of the Principal Act as to secure that persons temporarily registered shall be registered in a separate part of the register, and that where a person who is temporarily registered becomes registered otherwise than temporarily his name shall be removed from the separate part of the register.
	(6) The Council may, if it thinks fit, in lieu of or in addition to including the separate part of the register referred to in sub-section (5) of this section in the annual publication of the Medical Register of Ireland, cause a list of persons temporarily registered to be prepared at least once in each year.
	(7) A list under subsection (6) of this section shall be prepared in the prescribed form and shall be compiled by reference to a date directed by the Council and specified in the list and the Council shall cause copies of the list to be available for purchase by any person on payment of the prescribed fee.
	(8) A copy purporting to be a copy referred to in subsection (7) of this section which is for the...